The League Of Gentlemen: All Their Other Shows Ranked From Worst To Best

Twenty years after they first appeared on Radio 4 The League Of Gentlemen - Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and unseen co-writer Jeremy Dyson - have been hard to avoid this Christmas season. There's been a trio of anniversary reunion specials in the week leading up to Christmas, then on Christmas Day itself Gatiss starred in Peter Capaldi's final episode of Doctor Who, Twice Upon A Time, before the new year sees a whole new series of Pemberton and Shearsmith's darkly comic anthology series Inside No. 9.

In the years between the series' end in 2002 and this Christmas' anniversary specials the individual members of the League have been far from idle. Going their separate ways (but often continuing to show up in each other's work), Gatiss, Pemberton, Shearsmith and Dyson have produced an impressive array of ghost stories, detective stories, sci-fi adventures, and even more comic grotesques.

There's been regular acting work for all of them, from Gatiss' turn as an oily banker in Game Of Thrones, to Pemberton's recurring role on long running Costa Blanca sitcom Benidorm, to Shearsmith's appearances in the disturbing films of Ben Wheatley.

It's not their acting in other people's work that this list is interested in, though. Instead, this is a countdown of the fifteen shows and movies created, written or directed by members of The League Of Gentlemen in the time between the original series and the reunion. So, let's begin with a decade old BBC Four docudrama that few will remember...

The Worst Journey In The World was the memoir of explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard's experience of Captain Scott's infamously disastrous 1910-13 Antarctic Expedition. In 2007 Gatiss wrote and starred as Cherry-Garrard in an hour-long adaptation of the book for BBC Four.

The drama largely focuses on Cherry-Garard's own project to trek 60 miles across the Antarctic to collect some penguin eggs rather than Scott's fateful race to the pole, although the final few minutes do show Cherry-Garard's ultimately unsuccessful attempts to mount a rescue mission.

The Worst Journey In The World isn't the worst way to spend an hour watching TV. Gatiss' love of the Edwardian era and a desire to both celebrate and subvert that age's narratives of heroic explorer-adventurers are clear. However, the film is hampered by the extra low budget, making everything seem a little too small scale.

The Antarctic should feel like a vast, remote, and hostile environment, but there just isn't enough here to give the feel of that.